The growing use of Internet-connected mobile devices demands that we reconsider search user interface design in light of the context and information needs specific to mobile users. In this paper the authors present a framework of mobile information needs, juxtaposing search motives—casual, lookup, learn, and investigate—with search types—informational, geographic, personal information managemen...

Background: Caring is the essence of nursing practice, but has been understood in various countries in a different way. Analysis of nurses’ perception of caring behaviors provides the possibility to nursing teachers and administrators to be able to plan a program to meet all the patients’ needs with an inclusive view. Aim: to determine nurses’ perception about caring behaviors and the factors t...

Research has demonstrated that information workers often manage several different computing devices in an effort to balance convenience, mobility, input efficiency, and content readability throughout their day. The high portability of the mobile phone has made it an increasingly valuable member of this ecosystem of devices. To understand how future technologies might better support productivity...

1 Author for correspondence ([email protected]) ABSTRACT Almost all Web searches are carried out while the user is sitting at a conventional desktop computer, connected to the Internet. Although online, handheld, mobile search offers new possibilities, the fastpaced, focused style of interaction may not be appropriate for all user search needs. In this paper, we explore an alterative, relaxed styl...

The integration of the wireless LAN technology in mobile devices such as cellular phones, PDAs or laptops has become a user need due to its popularity in providing high speed wireless Internet access at a low cost. Such devices though should meet users’ expectations with regard to QoS, e.g., guarantee a reasonable voice quality when VoIP is used, and power saving efficiency, e.g., standby and c...

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This paper represents Part II of a two-part study in which a new improved version of the microplane constitutive model for damage-plastic behavior of concrete in 3D is developed. In Part II, an explicit numerical algorithm for model M4 is formulated, the material parameters of model M4 are calibrated by optimum fitting of the basic test data available in the literature, and the model is verifie...

Everyday life is filled with a very wide range of hearing situations. Automatic multi-program hearing systems are ideal for assisting people with hearing difficulties in any environment. Hearing needs and preferences can be very individual, with marked differences from one person to the next in the same hearing situation. So, in addition to compensating for measured hearing loss, an advanced he...

The underlying technologies driving the World Wide Web are largely based on the assumption of wired communications and powerful desktop hardware. This is not true when a user is accessing the Web pages and documents using a PDA and moving from wireless network in a mall to a neighboring office environment. Taking into consideration on the information needs of the user, we have developed a meta-...